DITCHING DIETS
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My whole life I’ve been focused on getting thinner. Ive counted calories, worried over food, punished my body with exercise and rewarded it with treats for as long as I can remember. I’ve done the chicken diet, weight watchers, Jenny Craig and even tried to survive off coffee alone (that one lasted 2 days and I was 18 🤦🏼‍♀️). I’ve never had any other goal than losing weight. Once I lost weight, I’d put it on again and so the cycle continued - insert MISERY. Only once I started thinking about how no NOURISH my body, give it the good stuff to function optimally and feel my best, stopped demonising one food over another and focused on getting fitter and stronger did I see any permanent lasting changes. Living a healthy lifestyle isn’t about permanent restriction (which I always feared), it’s about permanent BALANCE. You can literally have your cake and eat it too 🙌🏼

“Calories don’t matter, you just need to eat healthy and exercise”.
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The above is a VERY uneducated statement by someone that doesn’t know what they are talking about.
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When it comes to losing fat, calories do matter, in fact they matter a lot.
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If you breakdown every single diet in the world that has been successful in delivering fat loss return, you will find that in some way, shape or form calories will have been reduced to bring about a calorie deficit.
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This may have been done in extreme or unsustainable ways by cutting out a macronutrient or food group, using a points system, using measures for portion control or even exercising a crazy amount more than previously.
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Nonetheless, whatever method was used, the reason weight loss occurred was because a deficit was introduced. The person was taking in less than they were putting out. Simple.
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If I told you to eat 3 Mars bars a day, a calorie deficit would be induced and you would lose weight.
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These methods are obviously suboptimal, unsustainable and downright unhealthy, but they worked because an energy deficit was created.
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Just because someone lost weight following a dietary protocol, it doesn’t mean you should follow it.
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By simply eating ‘clean’ and exercising you may drop some weight if you were used to being fairly sedentarty and your diet was extremely poor or calorie dense before.
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This is because it is an improvement on what you were previously doing and that is amazing!
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But is this a long term solution for your fat loss? .
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Absolutely not. .
What do you do when progress stalls?
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Eat cleaner? Exercise even more? .
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By having an idea of your calorie intake and expenditure, you can help yourself massively when fat loss stalls as you can use that data to make your next move, adjusting calories or output to increase that deficit and keep you progressing.
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You will also be able to fit in some foods you love that might not be considered to be as ‘clean’ and still reach your body composition goals.
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It will make your approach a whole lot more sustainable and enjoyable and you will be able to manage variables like energy levels and performance far more optionally too.
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Continued below ⤵️

Who’s sick and tired of pushing; doing more; getting stuff done; being everything to everybody. .
Far out! It can be freaking exhausting. .
Because, let’s face it, there is ALWAYS more to do. .
And instead of having a great job or running a business to have choices and family time and an amazing life, you’re stuck in the mundane stuff of life. .
I know for me, finding a way to stop doing so much and instead finding a way to be myself, was absolutely key. .
Watch this space for an epic event to find out how to do exactly this. #feminineleadershipiscoming

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Favourite meal of the day!
Breakfast!
Rye bread with poached eggs tomatoes mushrooms and spinach ❤ with a lovely black coffee!! Plenty of fuel for the start of a day 😀

🛑 You need to be tuned into your markets problems and not yours! 🌐 Sales success comes down to a transfer of energy, if you are more worried about your problems how will that make your prosepects/client feel?

Lol I don't even know what to caption this. I saw this and thought hey, why not take a picture?
What this image doesn't show is how deep the hole is. Got me thinking about the difference between #workinghard and #workingsmart . He did the digging, he #workedhard but his #boss will get the credit for the #results and be #paid far more for it.

I am grateful for how nothing lasts forever. No matter how badly we don’t want them to, things change. Nothing good and nothing bad will ever last forever. Although it is easy to become fearful that the good will go away instead it’s a great opportunity Learn to appreciate it when it’s around. Knowing that everything is finite is what places value upon it. Also understanding that no bad will last forever creates hope to get through any situation. Life is just a series of changing moments. One after the other.
Now it’s your turn

Get your day started correctly and Write one thing you are grateful here 👇

Something that I started to do years ago was a gratitude calendar

I used to just wake up and start my day not really paying much attention and basically being subjected to feel whatever the day had in store for me

This gave the chance for negativity to creep in if things didn’t start great

So I started doing this instead. In order to start everyday on my terms and happy I started to write down one thing that I was grateful for. I wrote Something that made me feel good about life. It let me be overcome with happiness and that’s now how I start everyday

In order to help anyone that needs it I’m now going to do my gratitude calendar here on Instagram and let you partake in it too

Every morning I will put one thing I’m grateful for and share my happiness. Please join in and write your one thing your grateful for in the comments Most people wake up and go straight to their phones and to Instagram . Let’s make the first thing they see great

I feel vain and silly taking pictures of myself for Instagram 😜. I don't need a lot of attention. I know I'm cute. I look like my mom, my aunt, and my grandmom. I was lucky. Anyhow, I may have lost 10-15 pounds total. I could say something like "hard work pays off", but intermittent fasting is not hard lol. Just eat during an 8 hour window daily and drink plenty of water. Eat sensibly and cut out excess sugar. I feel good about how I look but not because of a drastic physical change. It was more about accepting discipline and moving forward. Faith, fasting, and meditation were valuable tools that helped me get through a difficult time and readjust my mindset. Mindset is what brings about real and lasting change. Z caught me mid-snort in the second pic.😂 #mindset#intermittentfasting#results

My progress measured by my belt. I had to get another hole put through the belt so I can wear it. Hubby said just get a new belt, but I like this one 😂

Over two and a half ago since I started my health journey, and I’m not looking back. I had excess visceral fat which was dangerous for my health. I have kept the weight off, and planning to stay that way.

Workouts that help me achieve my goal were HIIT, body pump, KIMAX and strength training (not all in one day 😂) A change of lifestyle and diet helped me feel better about my appearance and mentality. It’s never too late. Anything is possible if you put your heart and mind to it, and give it 100% xx

I did it! By the grace of God I am 100% DEBT FREE! This is despite everything I could have held onto to justify why debt freedom was not achievable for me. ⁣
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After two degrees, several years of deferments, and minimal progress I finally got on a written budget and decided to tackle my car and student loan debt with everything in me. That meant some major changes... wiping out $18K of my personal savings to pay down debt, downsizing, new nursing jobs, 60+ hour work weeks, SELF-DISCIPLINE, and plain old saying no to myself and others. ⁣
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“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:11... I continuously told myself that this sacrifice was temporary and gaining financial peace in the end would be priceless. ⁣
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Living on less than we make, getting out and staying out of debt, saving and investing, and being good stewards of our hard earned income is how I know we can change our family trees and build generational wealth. Thanks for continuing to talk some sense into us millennials @daveramsey ! ⁣
⁣@simplyericagrace@adrianne_1908@o.pt.aka.lillusion Sisters, I can’t thank you guys enough for putting me on game. I’m glad I FINALLY decided to listen 🙃⁣
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Major shout out to the #debtfreecommunity and the almost 3K people that have been cheering me on. Just keep pushing! I got my shirt from @girltalkwithfo check out her website! ⁣
$88,197.41 PAID OFF in 16 months. Won’t He do it?⁣